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The Regional Foreign Policy of Trinidad and Tobago: Historical and Contemporary Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner
Jacqueline A. Braveboy-Wagner*
Affiliation:
City College of New York and the Graduate School, University Center of the City University of New York
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It is logical to assume that small states focus more attention on the regional, subsystemic or “contiguous” environment (Reid, 1974: 31) than on the broader international system. Given their financial limitations, small states are circumscribed in their ability to influence the international environment but can be effective in the regional context. Even if some small states, by virtue of comparative wealth or ideological commitment, have the capability and inclination to exploit the international environment rather than confine their focus to the region around them, they still find their attention directed, to a large extent, to the immediacy of regional problems and to regional activities that are grounded in social, cultural, political, and economic linkages to the countries nearby. More often than not, economic ties have been formalized in regional integration movements patterned along the lines of the European Community (EC).

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 31 , Issue 3: Special Issue: The International Dynamics of the Commonwealth Caribbean , Fall 1989 , pp. 37 - 62
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1989

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